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InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | in-depth coverage > India England Cricket Series > Hussain warns of twin dangers: Sachin and packed crowds 19.56 IST 06th Jan 2002 By IndiaExpress Bureau England captain Nasser Hussain on Sunday warned his young side that the one-day series against India, starting on January 19, would be a different cup of tea. The skipper asked the team to be prepared to cope with the pressure of playing in front of packed crowds and containing batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar. "They are going to be playing in front of packed crowds in hostile situations - trying to contain Sachin Tendulkar, or facing Anil Kumble or Harbhajan Singh and needing six an over," Hussain wrote in the Sunday Telegraph on Sunday. This series, he said, would pose a greater challenge than the one-day series in Zimbabwe. The team with the calmest head would win it, he said, adding that the strength of the opposition and the match situations would be more like the World Cup. Hussain said much would depend on the form of his leading batsman Graham Thorpe. "He needs to recapture the form he showed a year ago. He is the lynchpin in Tests and One-Dayers and when he is performing well players can learn a lot from him," Hussain said. "It's for the team to show that Zimbabwe tour was not one-off. It is also up to them to show they can close games successfully, and that is why it is so important that we have Thorpe back. England and India have had made periods in one-day cricket over recent years, losing five wickets for next to nothing or suffering a bout of crazy run-outs. Like India, we have lost games we should have won, so this series will be won by the team with the calmest heads," he wrote. in-depth coverage > India England Cricket Series > |
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